Footnotes

• Provenance:
  ex-collection Mrs. Ross C. Armstrong, Colusa California,
  inventoried June 1981 by Mr. Kiyoharu Yokouchi of
  Nikko Art Shop, Berkeley, California
  
  For a comparable example in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, see He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996), cat. no. 363, pp. 176-177 and p. 203.
  
  
  Excavations in the People's Republic of China in recent years have also uncovered the following examples: see Zhongguo chutu ciqi chuanji (Science Press, Beijing, 2008), Vol. 9 Zhejiang, cat. no. 211, excavated in 1984 at Hecheng town, Qingtian county, as Yuan to early Ming; and cat. no. 229, excavated in 1985 at Gongren Road, Yiwu city, as Yuan dynasty. A related example from the Jingdezhen kilns in white ware, excavated in 1960 from the tomb of Lady Ye, dated 1418, is published in Vol. 7, Jiangsu Shanghai, cat. no. 187.